Your beautiful photo's are just what I need to see on a dull, wet,overcast Winter's day, Chico, you can see how warm it is. I love the butterfly bush you have and just hope one that I bought is the same. Lovely shots of the critters.

Dee-o-Gee,The Rose of Sharon is about 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide.
Sorry the pic is blurry..I'll try to get a better one.

I wanted a Rose of Sharon,because they grow fast and I am not too fond of the regular oes I see everywhere.
The double Rose of Sharon,looks like a Camelia and I have hundreds of buds..I have not seen it anywhere else,I love it!

"UNTIL ONE HAS LOVED AN ANIMAL, PART OF THEIR SOUL REMAINS UNAWAKENED"
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion.
-Unknown

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"The animals share with us the privilege of having a soul." -Pythagoras
"The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different." -Hippocrates
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